Genital Chlamydia trachomatis is a sexually transmissible bacterial infection that is asymptomatic in the majority of infected individuals and is associated with significant short-term and long-term morbidity. The population prevalence of the infection appears to be increasing. C. trachomatis is of public health significance because of the impacts of untreated disease on reproductive outcomes, ...

A cornerstone in the control of sexually transmissible infection (STIs) includes the testing and treatment of sexual partners of patients diagnosed with treatable STIs – widely referred to as partner notification or contact tracing. At its most basic level, partner notification simply involves a clinician discussing with a patient the need for partners to be tested and treated appropriately. Te...

Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common known bacterial cause of sexually transmitted infection (STI) (1, 2) and an important cause of infertility in women and possibly in men (3, 4). Following a remarkable decrease in reported cases of C. trachomatis, there was a 10–15% annual increase in cases reported to the Swedish Centre of Communicable Disease Control between 1997 and 2005 (5). Increase ...